Act of Consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

According to her, it was composed under the inspiration of Jesus, which she wrote to the Roman Catholic priest, John Croiset, recommending that he include it in the book he was to publish about her revelations "It comes from Him, and He would not agree to its omission.

"[2] On 21 June 1675, the day of the first and future Feast of the Sacred Heart, Alacoque alleged that she received a vision of Jesus and made it known to her confessor Saint Claude La Colombière.

[3][4] In April 1875, the Jesuit priest Henri Ramière presented a petition to Pope Pius IX along with the names of 534 Bishops and 23 superiors general of Religious institutes.

May I obtain from all Your loving kindness the grace of having my name written in Your Heart, for in You I desire to place all my happiness and glory, living and dying in bondage to You.

[12] On 25 March 1874, Ecuador became the first country to be consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in a joint action of the president Gabriel García Moreno and Archbishop José Ignacio Checa y Barba.

[17][14] On 22 June 1902, the Republic of Colombia was consecrated by decree to the Sacred Heart of Jesus at the initiative of the Archbishop of Bogota Bernardo Herrera Restrepo.

As a plea for the end of the "Thousand Days War" which had broken out in 1899, the Archbishop asked the president José Manuel Marroquín to turn the nation to the Sacred Heart in order to unite Colombians.

José Manuel Marroquín agreed and the construction of the Voto Nacional church in Bogota, located in the locality of Los Martires, was also ordered.

[21][22] On 23 June 2023, on the occasion of the visit of the relics of Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, Mexico's consecration was renewed during a ceremony presided over by the Bishop of León Monsignor José Guadalupe Martín Rábago.

[23][24][25] In 1733, during Eucharistic adoration, the Jesuit Blessed Bernardo de Hoyos reportedly received revelations of the Sacred Heart, telling him: “I will reign in Spain and with more veneration than elsewhere”.

The consecration took place at the Cerro de los Angeles in front of the monument built a few years before, which would later be destroyed by the Republican militias during the Civil War.

[27] On 30 June 2019, the Spanish Church renewed the Consecration of Spain to the Sacred Heart, during a ceremony held on the esplanade of the Sanctuary of the Cerro de Los Angeles, at the foot of the monument as it was done in 1919.

[34][35] On 15 April 2018, in the Cathedral of Cochabamba, Bolivian bishops renewed the consecration to the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, as part of a celebration of the upcoming canonization of Saint Nazaria Ignacia March Mesa, as well as other important milestones for the Church in the country.

[34][35] Brazil was consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in 1931 by the Cardinal Sebastião Leme, at the inauguration of the Christ the Redeemer statue, on the Corcovado mountain in Rio de Janeiro.

On 12 April 2020, during Easter Sunday, the Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro and Cardinal Orani João Tempesta renewed the act of consecration of Brazil to the Sacred Heart of Jesus at the foot of the Christ the Redeemer monument.

[37] On 28 October 1945, Argentina was consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus during a ceremony held in Buenos Aires, during which Pope Pius XII addressed a radio message.

The formal act of consecration was followed with prayer ceremonies which were held across the country, including in Damascus, Aleppo, Homs, Latakia, Tartous and Haba.

In addition to Spain and Portugal, the other 22 countries consecrated at the request of their respective episcopal conferences were: Albania, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Slovakia, Guatemala, Hungary, India, Mexico, Moldova, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Kenya, the Dominican Republic, Romania, Tanzania, East Timor and Zimb abwe.